It is a milestone for the city-based MBS Youth Choir as it celebrates 30 years of a melodious journey.
Founded in memory of music composer M.B. Sreenivasan, the choir completes three decades on August 7.
The anniversary celebrations will kick off on August 11. Minister for Culture A.K. Balan will inaugurate the programme at Tagore Theatre at 5 p.m. K. Muraleedharan, MLA, will preside.
The MBS award will be presented to Selma George, who rendered songs such as Saradindhu and Bharatamuni composed by Sreenivasan for the films Ulkadal and Yavanika .
Film-maker Adoor Gopalakrishnan, writer George Onakkoor, and Deputy Mayor Rakhi Ravikumar will be present.
Mr. Onakkoor who has had a long association with the choir, the Madras Youth Choir, its teachers, music directors, and choir founders M. Jayachandran and Mathew T. Itty will be honoured.
MBS Youth Choir, MBS Children’s Choir, and Madras Youth Choir will perform select Indian choral songs. Violinist Attukal Balasubramaniam will present a performance of film songs composed by Sreenivasan.
In 1987, when Thiruvananthapuram was hosting the National Games M.B. Sreenivasan, on a special invitation from the State government, got together 250 youth from Mahatma Gandhi and Kerala universities to form the Kerala University Youth Choir to sing at the inaugural.Every year, experts from the Madras Youth Choir set up by Sreenivasan in 1971 come down to the city to train the MBS choir members.
